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WORLD / Science & Health
Jul 13, 2019

More breastfeeding could save the world $1 billion every day, study says

Not enough breastfeeding costs the global economy almost $1 billion each day due to lost productivity and the costs of health care, researchers said on Friday.
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JAPAN
Jul 13, 2019

Japan weather firm looks to back 2020 Olympians with strategic data

A team from Weathernews Inc. is boosting efforts to amass data on air and road temperatures, humidity and other physical phenomena at venues for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, which are expected to take place amid sweltering heat.
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BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 13, 2019

Echo chambers: Fake news fact-checks hobbled by low reach, study shows

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BASKETBALL / NBA
Jul 13, 2019

Summer League players help boost NBA abroad

After an NBA Board of Governors meeting earlier this week, commissioner Adam Silver addressed the media, and that gathering in New York included an assessment of the rise in Japanese players during the ongoing NBA Summer League.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 13, 2019

India's ruling party to revive plan for Hindu settlements in Kashmir

India's ruling party will revive a plan to build secured camps to resettle scores of Hindus in the Muslim-dominated Kashmir Valley, a senior leader said, a proposal that would almost certainly heighten tensions in the restive region.
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JAPAN / Politics
Jul 13, 2019

Abe avoids sticky Iran, territorial issues in campaign speeches for Japan's Upper House election

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe appears to be avoiding discussing Iran and Japan's territorial dispute with Russia in his campaign speeches for the July 21 House of Councilors election.
WORLD
Jul 13, 2019

Ecuador tribe's victory in legal battle over selling ancestral Amazon land is upheld

A court in Ecuador has upheld a ruling that prevents the government from selling land in the Amazon rainforest to oil companies, a move activists called a historic win for the Waorani indigenous tribe living there.
JAPAN
Jul 13, 2019

Taboo family registry records from Meiji Era sold at auction in Japan again

Documents apparently showing family registry records from the Meiji Era called jinshin koseki, currently prohibited due to descriptions of social classes and criminal histories, have been auctioned online again, it has been learned.
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JAPAN / Politics
Jul 13, 2019

U.S. ambassador to Japan William Hagerty to leave post for Senate run, Trump says

U.S. Ambassador William Hagerty will leave his post to run for the Senate, President Donald Trump tweeted late Friday. Hagerty received a “Complete & Total Endorsement” from the American leader.
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JAPAN / Politics
Jul 13, 2019

61% of South Koreans blame Japanese government for diplomatic row

A total of 61 percent of South Koreans blame the Japanese government alone for the recent diplomatic friction between Seoul and Tokyo, an opinion poll in South Korea has shown.
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BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 13, 2019

U.S. regulators approve $5 billion penalty for Facebook to settle latest privacy issues: source

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission approved a roughly $5 billion settlement with Facebook Inc. this week over its investigation into the social media company's handling of user data, a source familiar with the situation said on Friday.
JAPAN
Jul 13, 2019

Magnitude 6.1 quake strikes area north of Okinawa Prefecture

An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 struck north of Japan's islands of Okinawa on Saturday, the United States Geological Survey said.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 13, 2019

PL outslugs CL in NPB All-Star Series opener

After watching the home run derby before the game, some Seibu Lions, past and present, put on a power show of their own.
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MULTIMEDIA
Jul 13, 2019

Bathing in light

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MULTIMEDIA
Jul 13, 2019

[VIDEO] Visiting Tokyo 2020 venues a year before the Olympics

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BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 12, 2019

VW and Ford extend collaboration to electric, self-driving cars

Volkswagen AG and Ford Motor Co. will cooperate on electric and self-driving car technology, sharing costs on a global scale to take a major step forward in the industry's disruptive transformation.
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BUSINESS
Jul 12, 2019

Complexity of economic spat comes into focus as Japanese and South Korean officials meet over trade row

Working-level talks between Japanese and South Korean export control officials ran over the intended time frame Friday, highlighting the complexity of the economic spat between the two Asian neighbors in the wake of Tokyo's decision to strengthen export evaluations on three chemicals key to chip and...
EDITORIALS
Jul 12, 2019

Central banks under attack

The world needs strong and capable economic management.
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COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 12, 2019

Japan's place in coalition-building against Iran

Japan's participation in any coalition in the Persian Gulf region is far from a foregone conclusion
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COMMENTARY / World
Jul 12, 2019

U.S. plan to fight China and Russia is too good to be true

'Horizontal escalation' is a new strategy to shift a war to the enemy's weak spots. Unfortunately, it won't work on its own.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 12, 2019

Swallows reliever Scott McGough thrilled to be late addition to CL All-Star team

Scott McGough was planning to use his time off during the All-Star break to head down to Enoshima, Kanagawa Prefecture. He was going to walk around and see the sights and then maybe relax on a beach somewhere.
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SOCCER
Jul 12, 2019

Ex-England striker Peter Crouch announces retirement

Former England striker Peter Crouch announced on Friday his retirement from soccer after more than two decades as a professional.

Longform

Growing families are being priced out of Tokyo’s condo market, forced to choose between downtown convenience and suburban space.
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